Eco Ministry puts out report on Western Ghats, but with rider

Nudged by the Delhi High Court and the Central Information Commission, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has finally made public the Gadgil panel report on ecology in the Western Ghat... »

Can economy prevail over ecology?

No unanimity still on issue of ceiling on iron ore tapped from Goa

Goa NGO to verify mining firms' eco impact reports

Carmakers eye petrol engine exports as capacities lie unused

A file photo of Maruti Suzuki’s Swift DZire fitted with K-12 VVT petrol engine. — Photo: Kamal Narang

Diesel car becoming the preferred choice for buyers »

Akash missile test-fired from ITR in Odisha

Two days after its successful trial, India again test-fired the indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile from the test range at Chandipur near here today. “The user specific t... »

Surface-to-air Akash missile test-fired successfully
India’s missile defence shield ready

National Defence Academy set to acquire advanced training vessel for naval cadets

As part of its training upgradation programme to hone the skills of naval cadets, the National Defence Academy (NDA) is all set to acquire an advanced training vessel (ATV), considered the smaller... »

Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate Manipal meet on May 26

The Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, will inaugurate a seminar on ‘21st Century as the Asian Century: Role of India and China' at Manipal on May 26. Quoting Dr Arvind Kumar,... »

Bhopal, May 26

India, Indonesia trade set to touch $45 b by 2015

Trade ties between Indonesia and India are growing at a steady pace and could reach $45- billion mark by 2015, Indonesian Ambassador, Mr Andi M. Ghalib, said today.“I hope that the volume of... »

Kolkata, May 25

Frost & Sullivan's gesture

Consulting firm Frost and Sullivan gave away 30 computers to six institutions that work on social improvement on Thursday. According to a release, the company, in association with Bengal... »

New Delhi, May 24

IIFT, Singapore varsity ink pact

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singapore Management University (SMU) on Thursday for collaborating with on training and research activit... »

New Delhi, May 24

Centre calls for comments from Odisha on iron ore royalty

The Centre has sought comments from Odisha on the anomaly in its levy of royalty charges on iron ore. Odisha has been levying a flat royalty on iron ore -- be it a high grade lumps or th... »

Hyderabad, May 24

Weak rupee will impact cement firms, says industry body

Plainspeak: Mr M. A. M. R. Muthiah, President, Cement Manufacturers Association, speaking after inaugurating ‘Green Cementech-2012’ in Hyderabad on Thursday. — Mohammed Yousuf

The depreciation in the rupee will hit cement companies by making imported coal and equipment costlier, Mr Muthiah, President, Cement Manufacturers Association said. Speaking to newspers... »

Hyderabad, May 24

Corporates evince interest in AP Govt efforts to host UN biodiversity meet

Several corporate houses have evinced interest in taking part in the Andhra Pradesh Government's efforts to host the UN Biodiversity Summit in October 2012. The State has received respon... »

New Delhi, May 21

Liberal arts add zing to higher studies

Liberal arts degree programmes are now starting to make some headway in India's higher education landscape, dominated by subject-focused college degree programmes. “A young person needs... »

Ahmedabad, May 24

Auto gas price hike: Govt urged to set up State-level regulators

The Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), an Ahmedabad-based Non-Government Organisation working for protecting consumers' rights, on Thursday urged the Union Government to set up State-l... »

Coimbatore, May 24

Exporters demand rollback of petrol price hike

Tirupur Exporters' Association has criticised the steep hike in petrol prices and has appealed for a rollback of the hike.The TEA President, Mr A. Sakthivel, in a statement noted with c... »

New Delhi, May 24

‘India can turn wood, paper as major export items'

India has potential to make forest produce like wood and paper as major foreign exchange earner and UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is ready to extend knowledge and technological ass... »

Chennai, May 24

Thermal power station failures: Over 24,000 MW of capacity lost

Ahmedabad May 24

IFC, SEWA tie up to provide solar stoves, lanterns to rural women

New Delhi, May 24

Rangarajan to head 5-member expert panel on new poverty estimates

Bangalore, May 24

PMI India announces project management awards

Bangalore May 24

Karnataka to bid for 62nd UITP World Congress

New Delhi, May 24

Manmohan going to Myanmar on May 27

New Delhi, May 24

NDA to hold Bharat Bandh on May 31

Kolkata, May 22

Steel cos hope to clinch lower price deals on coking coal imports

Mangalore, May 25

The Hindu CET counselling

The Hindu will conduct a career counselling for students who have appeared for the Common Entrance Test (CET). The counselling will be conducted at Canara Girls' High School, Dongarakerry, in Mang... »

Chennai, May 25

Regulatory regime for shale gas by Dec 2013

The Government of India will put in place a regulatory regime for licence rounds for shale gas by December 2013, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr Jaipal Reddy, has said. <... »

New Delhi, May 24

Now, petrol pump dealers want higher commission

Petrol pump dealers, too, want their share of the pie from the price hike from Wednesday night. The Federation of All India Petroleum Traders (FAIPT), representing 40,000 dealers, wants the Govern... »

Kolkata, May 24

Mamata govt scraps SEZ policy

The Ms Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal Government has scrapped the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy of the erstwhile Left Front government. According to Mr Partha Chatterjee, State Com... »

Mumbai, May 24

BJP calls for direct transfer of subsidies

The United Progressive Alliance Government's efforts to convert subsidies, particularly farm subsidies, into direct cash transfer schemes in a phased manner got support from the principal Oppositi... »

Kochi, May 24

Safety review meet in Kochi

The State Home Minister, Mr Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, will inaugurate a review meeting on safety to be organised by the City Police here on Friday. The objective of the meeting is to... »

Coimbatore, May 24

Indian Chamber flays petrol price hike

The Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Coimbatore, has expressed fear that the petrol price hike would only widen the gap between the demand for petrol and diesel vehicles. I... »

New Delhi, May 24

Rising temperatures scorch North, East India

Rising temperatures coupled with hot and dusty winds scorched the Northern and Eastern parts of the country where temperatures hovered three to four degrees above normal at many places. »

Rourkela, May 24

Huge quantity of illegal iron ore seized in Odisha

Three persons were arrested and huge quantity of illegal iron ore seized at Lahunipara area of Odisha's Sundargrh district on Thursday. One tipper and nine tonne of iron ores were seized... »

New Delhi, May 24

Ministers' group to meet soon on revising diesel, LPG rates

After a steep Rs 7.54 a litre hike in petrol prices, a high powered ministerial panel headed by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, may meet soon to decide on revising diesel, cooking gas L... »

New Delhi, May 24

No immediate rollback of petrol price hike, say oil retailers

Chennai, May 24

India’s first solar Renewable Energy Certificates issued, to M&B Switchgear

Mumbai, May 24

BJP accepts Sanjay Joshi's resignation

Hyderabad, May 24

CBI arrests AP Minister in illegal assets case

Hyderabad, May 24

Sompeta thermal project hits Green tribunal hurdle

Balasore (Odisha), May 24

Surface-to-air Akash missile test-fired successfully

Thiruvananthapuram, May 24

Petrol price hike: LDF, BJP observe hartal in Kerala

Agri-biz

Onion exports run into quality problems

Onion exporters have begun to hold back their consignments after overseas buyers complained of quality problems. “We have received complaints with regard to 6-7 consignments out of 10 con... »

Agrimart outlet opened near Hyderabad

Monsoon making steady progress in the Bay

Arabica get limited enquiries at ICTA coffee auction

As part of recast, Tea Board drops loan component from Tea Fund

Monsoon breaks over Maldives, eyes Sri Lanka

AP warns Mahyco on shortage of seeds

Pedabayalu coffee bags award

Arecanut import by actual users will help growers, says DGFT

Markets

Seize the opportunity, HDFC AMC's Prashant Jain tells investors

Investors should utilise the present downturn in the markets for making long-term investments as it is unlikely that the markets would offer many such windows, according to Mr Prashant Jain, »

Brokerage houses report steep fall in profits

SEBI in talks with OECD for corporate governance guidelines

Sensex snaps 4-week losing streak

Hotel Leelaventure redeems bonds worth $41.6 m

Insider trading: Ex-Galleon portfolio manager testifies against Rajat Gupta

CSE index gains 112 points this week

Commodities

Traders avoid taking position in rubber futures

Physical rubber prices closed almost steady on Friday. According to observers, market activities were extremely slow. Traders seemed to be hesitant to take fresh positions though the domestic futu... »

Sugar mills under pressure to clear stocks

Wheat rules below minimum support price level

Edible oil stockists take advantage of weak $

Cotton rules steady as ginners curb sales

Onion exports run into quality problems

Weak arrivals, strong $ perk up tur

50% turmeric goes unsold in Erode markets

Pepper bounces back

Companies

Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s Etios Liva (file photo). — Kamal Narang

Toyota Kirloskar Motor to ramp up production of Etios by 75%

Toyota Kirloskar Motor plans to ramp up production of Etios series by 75 per cent at its second plant at Bidadi near Bangalore. The company plans to increase the productio... »

R Com Q4 net jumps 98%

Refineries claim normal supply, but Chennai reels under diesel shortage

Keventer Group plans Rs 700-cr food park in Bengal

Texmaco Rail & Engg bags Rs 117 cr Bangladesh order

TTK Prestige ties up with German glass-maker for cooking range

Great Offshore Q4 net slumps 91%

Balmer Lawrie PAT grows 14% in FY’12; announces 280% dividend

FDC net dips to Rs 28.56-cr in Q4

Info-tech

GSM operators add 6.5 m users in April

Bharti Airtel added 2.01 million users, highest in April, taking its total subscriber base to 183.29 million.

GSM telecom operators added 6.5 million subscribers in April, taking the total user base to 670.57 million.The GSM subscriber base was 664.08 million in March.Leading telecom operato... »

Telecom Commission asks TRAI for analysis on 2G pricing

Smartphones push not to curb PC demand

A4 printer sales post flat growth in Jan-March

Subramanian Swamy to file additional complaint in Aircel-Maxis deal

No clarity on number of 2G licences to be cancelled

EGoM to take final call on spectrum reserve price

TRAI withdraws complaints

Ministries object to proposals in new telecom policy

Marketing

Plunging rupee to make Set Top Boxes dearer

TV viewers, watch out! The falling rupee is pushing up the prices of set top boxes. As a result new cable connections could cost more. Multi System Operators (MSO) and independent cable operators... »

Shree Ganesh Jewellery, Italian firm tie-up for Rs 560-cr unit

Digitisation and the ratings game

Indian firms slow at product launch, fast at packaging

Champion Agro to set up 400 agro malls in 3 years

IPL finals a sell-out

Tourists come in droves to Gujarat on Big B magic

John Distilleries to introduce single malt whisky

MPG Honda showroom in Kollam

Logistics

Only about 13% of Rs 1-lakh-crore outlay for 11th Plan has been spent. The panel has sought the status of incomplete projects and the reasons behind the delays.

Panel raps Shipping Ministry for slow execution of projects

A Parliamentary committee has slammed the Shipping Ministry for spending only about 13 per cent of the Rs 1-lakh crore outlay for the port sector during the 11th Plan (2007-12), and has termed the... »

Strike may affect arrears payout: Ajit Singh tells Air India pilots

L&T to train youth in rail construction

Kochi Port may appoint 3rd contractor to complete dredging at Vallarpadam

Food plazas proposed in 109 railway stations

Jet Airways likely to expand international operations

Aviation emission tax is here to stay: EU

Developing green belt: Hyderabad Metro transplants a few hundred trees

‘Domestic services not hit by pilots strike’

Banking

SBI unions ready for merger of associate banks

The forthcoming 25th Triennial General Council meeting of the All India State Bank Officers’ Federation (AISBOF) is expected to pass a resolution supporting the merger of the five associate b... »

3 pvt banks to insist on minimum balance every month

Spanish bank seeks €19-b fund support

Study finds health insurance awareness among Indian families

Varun Industries referred to debt restructuring cell

Effect of EU crisis on rupee

Kerala promises help to MFIs

SBI chief in Thiruvananthapuram

Union Bank customer service plan